During four hundred years of slavery, black people did not accept the idea as easily as many thought. According to Americans in the 19th century, several factors led to violent slave rebellions regarding plantation slavery and the black slaves who labored under that system. Whites generally believed that the “faith” of the blacks were to blame. While the blacks thought their masters' power and the institution that dehumanized them was the reason. The whites believed …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 723 total…accomplished a different feat by keeping whites on the defensive. Yet at the same time, these revolts demonstrated the weakness of the Black position. Frightened whites were often worse masters than complacent whites, and slaves had no rights according to the law. Slave revolts were the only means by which slaves could make a statement about the condition of their lives, but those revolts had the effect of often making those living conditions even worse.